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> You could dog food Oasis on top of Sandstorm. That's not gonna work. Sandstorm is explicitly not designed to be big-cloud infrastructure, it's designed to ho
by kentonv 7y ago
> You could dog food Oasis on top of Sandstorm.
That's not gonna work. Sandstorm is explicitly not designed to be big-cloud infrastructure, it's designed to host small-scale apps. Oasis is intended to be a big Sandstorm server that utilizes a cluster of machines. It therefore needs to sit on top of big-cloud infrastructure, not other Sandstorm servers.
> You sold a "decentralization idealism" as you coined it
That was teleclimber's phrase, not mine.
> In my opinion, this offering represents a natural conflict and is not destined to work in a sustainable way.
I agree, if I were doing it over I don't think I'd build Oasis. I'd focus instead on federation and migration features, and partnerships with hosting providers and device manufacturers to make setting up a private Sandstorm server as trivial as possible.
> Why not sell a good old license for advanced/enterprisey features?
We tried that: https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-08-31-sandstorm-for-work-ready https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-08-31-sandstorm-for-work-read...
IIRC our total sales of Sandstorm for Work could be counted on one hand.